Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above. They were published by John Barrett, Chairman of the Coolidge Independent Group. They purport to be the answers, of a group of 2,400 "key voters" in the central West, to a questionnaire. It is an open question as to how representative these voters are, and their exact distribution was not given. The same questions were sent out in June and after Mr. Coolidge's acceptance speech in August. The questions and answers...
...remarks quoted in the public prints are exact reproductions of what has actually been said. Reportorial practice is to set down the gist of a speaker's words, couched in phraseology approximately but not actually his own, except for any memorable "purple patches," i. e., neat or colorful or specially emphasized word combinations. But "purple patches" are indeed preserved and different accounts of a given statement or interview usually tally very closely. If they do not, a variation indicates either bad reporting or the pressure of policy...
There is considerable dispute as to the exact conditions which pertain on Mars' surface, so that there is ample room for difference of opinion as to the possibility of life. Conditions are certainly different from those on the Earth, but it is just as impossible to say that there is no life as to say that there is. The evidence is circumstantial to a refined degree. But if there is life on Mars, it is in different form from that existing on the Earth. Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi...
Instead of being a military gesture, this plan is the exact opposite. It is a non-militaristic gesture for the purpose of keeping down to its lowest possible point the professional military organization of the United States...
...Kamenev, it was decided to make students pass an examination on public development. One question was 'Who is the head of the Third International ?'† One unfortunate student answered 'Rosa Luxembourg' and was expelled. A woman medical student who was unable to give the exact definition of the Central Executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Republics was dismissed. A third was expelled for not knowing about the members of Lenin's family...